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thank you

Grant Flaum
| 06 August 2014

Thank you for your obedience, faithfulness and joy in giving financially to this house. I have been amazed at the generosity of this community.Giving is not a topic we hear of much at Central Parks (and we should!!). It can often be one of the hardest things to do – give your tithe - especially when monthly finances are under pressure. Yet when we give, giants (of poverty, of withholding, of small thinking, etc) tumble. I speak from experience!!

We are on an exciting mission that will require an enormous investment of your time, talents and finances if we are going to see the Parks changed for God.Thank you for your faithfulness and commitment to King Jesus and this cause. Don’t lose heart or 'grow weary in well doing’ (Galatians 6:9)…we are on an exciting journey together!!

We received a mandate 8 years ago to plant a church that would ‘take back the Parks’Joshua 14:9: ‘…the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever…’

Reminder of our prophetic words:

“You will know the times and seasons in this nation and you will respond with my heart; you will be a house from which my voice of healing and insight and wisdom will flourish; you will be a house of influence and reconciliation and healing to the broken hearted. I will take you to people in the commercial world, in public eye and you will network…”- Marion Fitz-Gibbons, October 2012

“I saw you in the river with a long, thick rope. You were each on one side of the river with the rope between you. The rope was the Word and while you were walking up stream and carrying the rope, the rope was catching people being swept downstream away from the throne. The rope never got too overcrowded as the river would just get bigger, everyone was together heading toward the throne…”- Elaine Dodge, July 2014

Last week I was walking on campus and I passed a girl- she had her head down on a table. I had a thought that I should check if she's okay but dismissed it. I went on my way to do what I needed to do and passed her again on my way back, and again had the thought that I should maybe pray for her. I dismissed it again (how silly we are sometimes to ignore Holy Spirit's voice, yet He is still so patient with us :). I was almost on the other side of campus when I couldn't ignore Him any longer. I went back and asked the girl if she was okay. She said she had a major migraine so I asked if I could pray for her. She paused and I thought she was going to say no, but instead she started crying and told me how she couldn't believe it- just before I had come up to her she was praying for God to send her a sign that everything was going to be alright. She was supposed to have completed her degree that day but there was a delay in one of her subjects- her results said she had failed it but she knew that she couldn't have since she did so well in her other subjects. It's amazing that WE can be God's answer to someone's prayer! So we prayed and the next day she went to her faculty and they said that one of the students had been condoned. The name of the student wasn't revealed but they revealed the mark and it was her exact mark! So now we are just waiting for confirmation that it is her.

My husband, children and I visited you for the first time this past Sunday morning and we thoroughly enjoyed your service. Our 2 girls had been sick, the eldest with bronchitis and the youngest with ear infection - she was on her 3rd lot of antibiotics to try and clear the infection and the doctors had advised me that an ENT would be the next step if the infection hadn't cleared, and I really did not want to go that route because it would probably mean grommets, which meant anaesthesia.

As I walked into the service on Sunday morning, I strongly felt the presence of God and the first thing that crossed my mind is that there is healing in the presence of the Lord. I spoke these words to Him. After worship, my husband went out with our girls to children's church and during the time of prayer for healing, I stood in the gap for our girls and trusted the Lord for healing. On Monday night at bedtime, I again prayed with them for their healing. We had a follow up doctor's appointment on Tuesday, where I was to get the referral for the ENT.

On Tuesday morning, we went back to the doctor - she checked my daughters ear and could not believe the difference - there was no redness at all and no sign of infection! She couldn't believe it was the same ear she had checked only a few days before. At the same time I asked her to check my other daughter and her chest had completely cleared - no sign of bronchitis!

I thank the Lord for His healing and His goodness! I am so grateful unto Him for the work He has done in their lives. This has definitely increased their faith in Him, as well as mine.